Making silence speak : women's voices in Greek literature and society /

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This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lardinois, A. P. M. H. (Editor), McClure, Laura, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Greece.
Greek literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women > Greece > Intellectual life.
Women > Greece > Social conditions.
Greek language > Spoken Greek.
Speech in literature.
Women in literature.
Femmes et littérature > Grèce.
Femmes > Grèce > Conditions sociales.
Grec (Langue) > Grec parlé.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes grecs > Histoire et critique.
Femmes > Grèce > Vie intellectuelle.
Parole dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature.
Women and literature.
Women > Intellectual life.
Women > Social conditions.
Griekse oudheid.
Vrouwen.
Taalgebruik.
Invloed.
Letterkunde.
Greece.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Laura McClure
  • This voice which is not one : Helen's verbal guises in Homeric epic / Nancy Worman
  • The voice at the center of the world : the Pythias' ambiguity and authority / Lisa Maurizio
  • Just like a woman : enigmas of the lyric voice / Richard P. Martin
  • Keening Sappho: female speech genres in Sappho's poetry / André Lardinois
  • Virtual voices : toward a choreography of women's speech in classical Athens / Josine H. Blok
  • Antigone and her sister(s) : embodying women in Greek tragedy / Mark Griffith
  • Women's cultic joking and mockery : some perspectives / D.M. O'Higgins
  • Women's voices in Attic oratory / Michael Gagarin
  • The good daughter : mothers' tutelage in Erinna's Distaff and fourth-century epitaphs / Eva Stehle
  • Ladies' day at the Art Institute : Theocritus, Herodas, and the gendered gaze / Marilyn B. Skinner
  • Windows on a woman's world : some letters from Roman Egypt / Raffaella Cribiore
  • (In- )Versions of Pygmalion : the statue talks back / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer.

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